ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Percy Manning's English objects donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum

Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

These are all the English artefacts donated by Percy Manning to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1911, please note that the descriptions are those given in the Museum's accession book entries. In all instances, Manning's address is given as New College. The items in italics are from outside Oxfordshire. He does not seem to have mentioned the artefacts he donated to the Museum in his Folklore publications.

1911.29.9 Long blade of rapier dug up on site of Jesus Coll. new buildings in Ship Street, 1906. † Blade inscribed SAHAGUM.

1911.29.10 English midshipman’s dirk, old pattern

1911.29.11 English brass-barrelled blunderbuss, flint-lock by Spencer.

1911.29.12 Hide-covered wooden shield, Crusader-type, with eagle emblem painted on front. No history but bought in Oxford.

1911.29.14-15 2 peasant’s spinning-wheels (vertical & horizontal), Great Tew, Oxon.

1911.29.16 Small neatly made lady's spinning-wheel for wearing in the belt. ? locality.

1911.29.17-18 2 roughly-made wooden lace-bobbin winders, Launton, Oxon and Orlingbury, Northants.

1911.29.19 Well-made mahogany ditto [“lace-bobbin winder”] formerly belonging to the Verney family of Claydon, Bucks. Made about 1800.

1911.29.20 Lace-makers horse & pillow with bobbins, pattern etc, Launton, Oxon, 1896.

1911.29.21 Lace-makers horse or stand for pillow, Orlingbury, Northants.

1911.29.22 Lace-makers candle & lens stand, with central candle socket & 4 sockets for flask-lenses, Aylesbury, Bucks.
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 4 Lamps Series T-Z and I - XIX Division: See Lacemaking exhibit Description: D IV 174 3 Lace maker's candle and lens stand, with central adjustable candle-socket and 4 sockets for flask-lenses (the lenses have been blown from an old copy by Mr George of the Electrical Laboratory in 1943 *) [insert] * Numbers of lenses are 1943.10.B79-82) People: English Locality: Aylesbury Bucks Collected by: Percy Manning How Acquired: d.d. Percy Manning 1911

1911.29.23 Rough [Drawing]-shaped wooden socket for lace-makers water lens with flask-shaped lens (for filling with water). This had been in the Slade family at Marsh Gibbon for more than 100 years. B[ough]t. [?sic] in 1903.
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 4 Lamps Series T-Z and I - XIX Division: see Lacemaking exhibit Description: Glass lens and wooden lens-holder used by lace-makers. The glass was filled with water for throwing light on the lace-pillow. Made c 1800. "This bottle and Holder has been in the Slade family very many years. The present head of the family is still living, and it was his mother's and must be 100 years old or more" T.J.C. Locality: Marsh Gibbon, Bucks How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911

1911.29.24-27 4 old socket candle-sticks of iron, Headington, Oxford, [Long Crendon, Bucks (2) & Elsfield, Oxon].
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 1 Lamps Series A-E Group: C Division: I Class: Iron c'sticks Number: 2 and 3 Description: Iron candlestick [insert] 's' ie candlesticks [end insert] made c 1800 With sliding arrangement at the side for lowering or raising the candle Height 23.7 cm Locality: Bt at Headington, Oxford 1903 How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 1 Lamps Series A-E Group: C Division: I Class: Iron c'sticks Number: 6 [insert] and 6A [end insert] [insert] possibly number 5 and 6 shd be amended [end insert] Description: A pair of iron candlesticks, c 1800. One has the candle still in it. The candle can be raised or lowered up and down a slit cut down half the length of the side Height 18 cm [insert][crossed out from here] pair found answering ... [illegible] but no candle in Those are of "Sussex iron type" with convex base for "pig-scraping" and projection for hooking on at top [initials, unreadable][end crossing out][end insert] Locality: Long Crendon Bucks 1904 How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911 References: "Light and fire making" H.C. Mercer p 18 fig 26
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 1 Lamps Series A-E Group: C Division: I Class: Iron c'sticks Number: 6 [insert] and 6A [end insert] [insert] possibly number 5 and 6 shd be amended [end insert] Description: A pair of iron candlesticks, c 1800. One has the candle still in it. The candle can be raised or lowered up and down a slit cut down half the length of the side Height 18 cm [insert] pair found answering ... [illegible] [crossed out from here] but no candle in Those are of "Sussex iron type" with convex base for "pig-scraping" and projection for hooking on at top [initials, unreadable] [end crossing out] [end insert] Locality: Long Crendon Bucks 1904 How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911 References: "Light and fire making" H.C. Mercer p 18 fig 26
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 1 Lamps Series A-E Group: C Division: I Class: Iron c'sticks Number: 5 Description: Rushlight ['rush' crossed out][insert] Dip [end insert] holder of iron, made c 1800. Candlestick shape, with arrangement for raising and lowering the rush through a slit in the side of the holder. Height 18. cm Locality: Bought at Elsfield 1903 How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911

1911.29.28 Candlestick for clipping onto church pew, Old Headington Church, Oxford.
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 1 Lamps Series A-E Group: C Division: V Class: Various Number: 2 Description: Candlestick of iron, the clip coloured blue, with a white cross on either side of the clip. Used for clipping on to the front of a church pew. In winter people used to bring their own candles in horn lantherns [sic] to light them to church and stuck the candle in the pew candlestick during service. Locality: Old Headington Church Oxford How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911

1911.29.29 Japanned-tin candle-box of c. 1825, Iffley, Oxon.
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 4 Lamps Series T-Z and I - XIX Group: XVII Class: Candle boxes Number: 3 Description: Candle-box cylindrical in shape, of japanned iron About 8 [insert] 0 ie 80 [end insert] years old (c 1825) Locality: Iffley Oxon 1904 How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911

1911.29.30 Rush-light candle, Wheatley, Oxon, probably made in Oxford c. 1850.
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 4 Lamps Series T-Z and I - XIX Group VIII Number 13 Description: Rush candle obtained at Wheatley Oxon in 193 . [sic] It was probably made in Oxford c 1850 by one of the three candlemakers - Mesr Grimbly (Cornmarket) Tubb (George St) and Underhill (Friar's Entry) Locality: Wheatley Oxon How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911

1911.29.31 Rush-light candle, “function”, still burned in each “chamber” at Winchester College. Brought by W.R. Halliday, 1909.
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 1 Lamps Series A-E Description: Rush-candle, called at the College a function Still in use at Winchester College and burnt in each "chamber" Locality: England Collected by: W.R. Halliday 1909 How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911

1911.29.33-34 2 old horn lanterns, Headington, Oxon & Bartlemas Farm, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

1911.29.35 Fire making 117 A - R - Wooden tinder box. A lid-less rectangular box 8" x 4 5/8" x 2 5/8", divided by partition into two compartments each with a square lid. One compartment contains [Drawing]shaped steel, flint matches and brimstone, the other contains burnt linen tinder. Inscribed with name of "Jas Becket" (of Pennyfarthing Street, Oxford) "Feb 4 1805" Oxford Pres by P Manning 1911 IV 174

1911.29.36 Sulphur tinder-box matches made by Joseph Payne of St. Lawrence’s, Thanet.

1911.29.37 Hanging iron rack-candlestick, Taston, Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire.
Detailed lamp card catalogue entry - Box 1 Lamps Series A-E Group: C Division: D Class: Dipholders Number: 10 Description: Hanging iron candlestick, with notched bar by means of which the candlestick may be lengthened or shortened. Hook for suspension. Socket (a piece of iron bent round) to hold the candle. Used in Wychwood Forest by a keeper when skinning and cutting up deer. It belonged to John House of Taston Locality: Wychwood Forest, Oxon How Acquired: Pres'd by P. Manning 1911 References: Pro. of the Soc. of Archaeology, Jan 23rd 1888 p. 104 Fig 23

1911.29.38 “Hanger” of iron with rack adjustment, for hanging the cooking-pot from the “reddy-pole” in chimney, Long Crendon, Bucks.

1911.29.39 Old iron kettle-tilter, Oxford.

1911.29.40 Oat-cake toaster of iron on tripod, ?Derbyshire.

1911.29.41 Pair of old iron “fire-dogs”, Wheatley, Oxfordshire.

1911.29.42 Pair of very old fire-tongs, Long Crendon, Bucks.

1911.29.43 “Dick” stone, quartzite pebble used to indicate when oven was hot enough for baking, from a cottage oven at Chislehampton.

1911.29.44 Brass cooking (straining) ladle, 60-70 years old, Oxford.

1911.29.45 “Dick-pot”, used by lace makers for warming themselves, Long Crendon.

1911.29.46 Brass skimming ladle for lifting vegetables etc from cooking pot, Long Crendon.

1911.29.47 Old reaping-sickle, Littlemore, Oxon, c. 1894.

1911.29.48-49 “Fagging-hook” and “fagging-stick”, Cowley, Oxon, 1896.

1911.29.50 Old leather-bottle cut open & used c.1840 as a salt-box, for hanging in cottage chimney, Burford, Oxon.

1911.29.51-52 2 old threshing-flails, Littlemore, Oxon.

1911.29.53 Digging-tool made from an old bayonet, ploughed up near Sansome’s pit, Hensington [?sic].

1911.29.54 Old-fashioned box-iron for ironing clothes, Great Haseley, Oxon.

1911.29.55 Perforated stone loom-weight (?), dredged up in Pot Stream, Hinksey, Oxon, 1905.

1911.29.56-58 3 pewter squirts (?enemata-clysters), date c. 1700, found in cleaning out the latrines in All Souls College, 1896.
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Drawer of case no 4 Description: Pewter squirt of date c 1700 found in cleaning out 'necessaria' at All Souls Coll. 1896 Length closed 10.6 cm Locality: Oxford How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Drawer of case no 4 Description: Pewter squirt of date c 1700 found in cleaning out 'necessaria' at All Souls Coll. 1896 This is the largest of the three length closed 15.5 cm Locality: Oxford How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Drawer of case no 4 Description: Pewter squirt of date c 1700 found in cleaning out 'necessaria' at All Souls Coll. 1896 Length closed 10.9 cm Locality: Oxford How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]

1911.29.59 Carved stone pipe-bowl said to have been found on site of the Old Angel Hotel, High Street, Oxford, 188-.
Detailed Pipes [Unsorted] Card Catalogue entry - Description: Pipe bowl made of pottery, modelled in the form of a grotesque human head. It is light in colour, part of the rim is broken away and missing, the stem piece expands in size towards the stem. It is fastened by wire to a square wood slab and has an old label on it 'site of Angel Inn, Oxford' Length 5.5 cm Locality: Said to have been found in pulling down Angel Hotel High Street Oxford How Acquired: dd P Manning 1911 [Drawing]

1911.29.60 Iron pipe bowl found in Oxford.
Detailed Pipes [Unsorted] Card Catalogue entry - Description: Iron pipe bowl. Bucket like in shape, with flattened base and up turned stem piece and tapered in shape being larger at the stem end. Bowl height 3.5 cm outer width of rim 3 cm Locality: Found in Oxford How acquired: dd P Manning 1911 [Drawing]

1911.29.61 Old pair of iron compasses, from excavations in the site of the City Ditch, Broad Street, Oxford, 1896.

1911.29.62 pair of brass ditto [“compasses”], ploughed up in North Field, Weston-on-the-Green.

1911.29.63 pair of early nut-crackers, English.

1911.29.64 Carved ivory pounce-box.

1911.29.65 Early ear-cleaning toilet instrument of silver (?). Found in Oxford.

1911.29.66 well-made whalebone [Added in different hand] baleen [End insert] “life preserver” club, English.

1911.29.67-69 Board, [pegs & stones] for game of “Merry-peg” or “Nine-men-morrice”. Baldon-on-the-Green, Oxon, as used 60 years ago.

1911.29.70-74 5 early metal shoe-buckles found in an old house at Shotover, Oxford.

1911.29.75 Bronze buckle dredged up in North Hinksey backwater, Oxford

1911.29.76 Early spherical bronze horse-bell (pellet-bell), "I.R." Bampton.

1911.29.77 Hand-bell used by R. Bowles, town-crier of Wallingford, Berks. [now Oxfordshire]

1911.29.78 Fire making 117 A - R - Ethn Dept Plain circular iron tinder box with lid fitting into the box, candle socket with 3 pronged "save all" in centre of lid. Handle broken away from box. Contains damper and [Drawing] shaped steel and flint bought at Burford Oxon 1903 Pres by P Manning 1911

1911.29.79 Fire making 117 A - R - Ethn Dep Plain circular iron tinder box with lid fitting over the box, ring handle at side, candle socket missing. Contains iron damper and [Drawing] shaped steel Bought in Oxford c 1894 Presd by P Manning 1911 IV 176

1911.29.80-85 Stone anvil, cutting-hammer & “peck” with leather knee-pad & hand & thumb guards, used by the Stonesfield slate-workers, Oxon.

1911.29.86 “Baby-runner” for teaching infants to walk, Long Crendon, Bucks.

1911.29.87 Ammonite carved with animal’s head as a forgery to “complete” the fossil, Whitby, Yorks.

1911.29.88-93 6 glazed ointment-pots excavated at All Souls (2) & Queens Colleges, Oxford.
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Case 2 Drawer 3 Pots for medical ointments etc ... - Description: Glazed pot for medical ointments (?) Light coloured (brown) with smooth surface, sub-cylindrical in shape, flared rim and short flared foot, open top Height c 4 cm diameter of top c 4.6 cm diameter of base c 4. cm Rather asymmetrical in shape Locality: Oxford excavated at All Souls 1896 How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Case 2 Drawer 3 Pots for medical ointments etc ... - Description: Glazed pot for medical ointments (?) Light coloured* round* in shape with rim and base defined, smooth open top *blueish white Height c 7.8 cm Max diameter of top 9.8 cm diameter of base c 3.6 cm *somewhat asymmetrical particularly so in the case of the rim, sub-cylindrical shape, rim constricted and flared, flared foot (short) Rim chipped in two places shallow chip from base Locality: Oxford excavated at All Souls 1896 How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Case 2 Drawer 3 Pots for medical ointments etc ... - Description: Glazed pot for medical ointments (?) Light coloured* with smooth surface round* in shape with rim and base defined, open top a repaired break on one side Height 6 cm diameter of top c 8 cm diameter of base c 6.5 cm *sub-cylindrical shape, flared rim and foot (short) * blueish white Locality: Oxford excavated at Queens coll How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Case 2 Drawer 3 Pots for medical ointments etc ... - Description: Glazed pot for medical ointments (?) Light coloured* with smooth surface round* in shape with rim and base defined, open top A few small chips from rim Height 5.5 cm diameter of top c 7.1 cm diameter of base c 4.7 cm *sub-cylindrical shape, flared rim and short flared foot * blueish white Locality: Oxford excavated at Queens coll How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Case 2 Drawer 3 Pots for medical ointments etc ... - Description: Glazed pot for medical ointments (?) Light coloured* rather roughly glazed, sub-cylindrical shape, flared rim and short flared foot Patches of glaze missing in places Height c 6.2 cm diameter of top c 7.1 cm diameter of base c 6.4 cm Open top rim chipped slightly on one side, base chipped a little also *pinkish Locality: Oxford excavated at Queens coll How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]
Detailed Medicine card catalogue entry - Case 2 Drawer 3 Pots for medical ointments etc ... - Description: Glazed pot for medical ointments (?) Light coloured* smooth surface sub-globular shape, flared rim and short flared foot. An un-glazed patch of surface on one side near base open top rim chipped in two places Height c 4.5 cm diameter of top c 7 cm diameter of base c 4.1 cm *blueish white Locality: Oxford excavated at Queens coll How Acquired: Pres by P. Manning 1911 [Drawing]

1911.29.94-95 2 Stoneware “Greybeard” [Added in another hand] Bellarmine [end insert] jugs, dug up in Oxford.

1911.29.96 plain stoneware jug dug up in Lincoln Coll., 22ft deep.

1911.29.97-103 7 early horse-shoes, Oxfordshire.

1911.29.104 Early plated snaffle-bit, Headington.

1911.29.106 Old wine-bottle with embossed stamp, I.C.C.R, i.e. Jesus College.

1911.29.107-134 28 old keys all of iron except one which is of brass, 2 or 3 are gilt, Oxfordshire (some with detailed localities).

The following item has been found unentered in accession books in the Museum's collections by staff since 1911 when the other artefacts were given

2002.17.1 Box iron for ironing clothes. It appears to be very similar to 1911.29.54 which was donated by Percy Manning in 1911 and may possibly be a duplicate object

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